Earlier today, Mike and I were talking about how things have changed at SWIX since last year's Xmas party. This time of year I always like to think back on what's been achieved. I know for SWIX and our team we've done a ton. One of the great things about working at a startup [...]
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This is what getting an iPhone 4 looks like…
Here is a great video of Carolynn getting an Iphone 4 for her birthday from the SWIX team. Check it out, its priceless.
Does it get more Canadian than this?
This past weekend, my wife and I hit another amazing milestone. We brought our son canoeing for the first time in his life. At first he wasn't so sure about it but quickly realized that canoeing is fun stuff. Above is pic of us paddling down the Gatineau river. It all ended in a swim. [...]
Community managers need more say
Clay McDaniel of Spring Creek Group wrote a great post on Mashable today entitled "HOW TO: Avoid a Social Media Disaster" – Aside from some basic stuff, he brought up an interesting point about community managers' role vis a vis other departments. Take a look… The community manager should work with the executive and PR [...]
SWIX makes the top ten list
Jennifer Kavur of itWorld Canada just released a list of 10 Social Media tools for Enterprise and SWIX made the list. I'm pretty happy about that because the list is pretty impressive which means we are in great company. The one glaring exception to the list was PostRank who absolutely should have been included. Here [...]
SWIX co-launches with earthquake
So earlier today we experimented with a great new way to launch software apps, it's called "The Earthquake Co-Launch". The idea is simple, just use a coinciding earthquake as part of the launch of your product. As many of you know SWIX launched yesterday but we did our "Earthquake Co-Launch" today. See video above UPDATE: [...]
Who are our users?
Being an analytics company we like stats and especially stats about our own app. Recently, we noticed something very interesting about the types of people who are use SWIX. The first thing we learned is that they are not IE users and that's not because we don't support IE. In fact, just about 6% [...]
Startup Movie Night at SwixHQ
This Thursday night we'll be hosting the first "Startup Movie Night" at the SWIX office's in the Byward Market. To get an idea of what people would like to watch, we've put together this cool little form. Vote for what you want to see. I'll be doing a post a little later in the week [...]
SWIX Dashboard Showcase: Techcrunch
Since launching SWIX a few months ago, we've been tracking the social media properties of quite a few big brands as a testing ground for our app. Originally, we thought we would post all these dashboards at once but I think it would be more fun to release them slowly over time. What we've decided [...]
We are going to Startup Camp Montreal
This is great news. SWIX has been chosen to present at the upcoming Startup Camp Montreal. We are totally psyched about this as it gives us an amazing opportunity to introduce SWIX to the Montreal Startup Community. In addition to that, we get to share the stage with some of the hottest startups in Canada. Here [...]